Re: Proposal: Merge (bundle) selected plugins into ofbiz-framework

[Jacques Le Roux]

Thanks Pierre,

I relayed your propositions, not telling it's you, else... you know...

Le 24/05/2024 à 10:49, Pierre Smits a écrit :

Hi Daniel, Jacques,

Given that the content application has some sort of dependency on the lucene plugin, please consider making the indexing functionality of lucene part of the framework services, and the rest of plugin part of the content component.

I would also suggest to make the project component part of the application stack, if the community decides to abandon plugins, as it is being used by adopters.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Pierre


On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 10:31 AM Daniel Watford <d...@foomoo.co.uk> wrote:

    Hello all,

    Following on from discussions around a previous proposal regarding merging
    _all_ plugins into ofbiz-framework [1], I would like to instead propose
    that we consider 'bundling' _some_ selected plugins into ofbiz-framework.

    The bundled plugins would be those deemed important enough by the
    development community that we want to ensure they continue to build and are
    updated alongside the core OFBiz code. These would be the plugins that the
    development community is prepared to expend effort maintaining.

    Those selected (bundled) plugins would then be regularly built as part of
    the CI process and their code processed by the various analysis tools we
    utilise.

    The bundled plugins should be disabled by default. We may then need to
    create guidance or some technical solution to help users enable only those
    bundled plugins that they need. (We have example code to enable/disable
    plugins in the Docker startup scripts).

    With those important plugins bundled as part of ofbiz-framework, we could
    then consider excluding the ofbiz-plugins repository from the release
    process. System integrators would be responsible for retrieving any
    non-bundled plugins that they use as part of their deployment process.

    If bundling key plugins into ofbiz-framework is considered worthwhile,
    which plugins should we bundle? Some suggestions might be:
    - REST-API
    - ecommerce
    - birt (assuming it is brought up to date and is secure)
    - passport / ldap
    - solr

    Please refer to [1] for some of the possible benefits and negatives to the
    above as I think they are mostly still relevant even if only bundling a
    subset of plugins into ofbiz-framework.

    Thanks,

    Dan.

    [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/jhjohny4ovb2tnpo6qpcwmz5m6513f57

-- Daniel Watford